Dundee Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidates Alison Burns (Dundee City West) and Allan Petrie (Dundee City East) have met up with Alison McInnes, Liberal Democrat MSP for North East Scotland, in Dundee's West End to show their support for the Yes to Fairer Votes campaign.
Figures have been released that give a clear indication as to how many people will be taken out of paying income tax in Brentwood from the 1st April and the number of residents who will be better off by £200 per year.
Network Rail is seeking to pull down the footbridge over the Bedford to Bletchley railway line along the riverside path in Bedford, near the Prebend Street Bridge. This may not mean much to those people who don't use that path, but the many people who do know it and who use this important route between the town centre and Queens Park and Kempston will know that this means people will have to use the path under the bridge. That would be fine, were the clearance under the bridge on the path not just 4 foot 9 inches, and liable to flooding which makes it impassable.
You may have read in yesterday's Times and Citizen newspaper, or heard on Heart FM this morning, about my reforms to the...
Mayor Dave Hodgson has announced a series of measures to restrict Bedford Borough Council's use of powers dubbed a 'snoopers' charter' for councils, and bring openness and transparency locally to a system which has been abused by a number of Councils around the country. The Mayor's reforms include introducing public scrutiny of any use by the Council of powers to conduct covert surveillance on local residents and new limits over authorisations of such uses.
A survey has shown that the Council tax cut delivered in Bedford Borough by Mayor Dave Hodgson is the largest in England. The survey published yesterday by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) showed that of the 80% of Councils who responded to their survey, Bedford Borough Council's £8.91 cut for band D households is the largest by a significant margin, with only one other council reducing council tax by more than £5. The reduction has been achieved without the widespread cuts to services seen in other areas across the country, with no library closures or reductions in opening hours, weekly bin collections saved and all leisure facilities retained.